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Rebuilding Texas - 8.30

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	All right, glad you're with us.
	Happy Wednesday.
	Although it's my Friday, 8009.
	Yeah, I have to rub it in.
	People like really, Hannity.
	We don't want to hear about your good day.
	We're having a rough day today.
	If you're having a rough day, I want to put a smile on your face.
	All right.
	So the president, uh, just a short time ago, starting his speech in Springfield, Missouri.
	It's really, really good.
	And he mentions Houston and obviously Texas, and his tax reform speech.
	And I'm listening to this and I'm saying, do you Republicans stand for anything?
	Because right now you have no identity.
	And if you don't support this plan, I think you all need to go.
	Let's play it from the top.
	Before we begin, I'd like to take a few moments to discuss the deeply tragic situation in Texas and Louisiana.
	As we all know, our Gulf Coast was hit over the weekend with a devastating hurricane of historic proportion.
	Torrential rains and terrible flooding continue to pose a grave danger to life and to property.
	Our first responders have been doing absolutely heroic work to shepherd people out of harm's way, and their courage and devotion has saved countless lives.
	They represent truly the very best of America.
	Thank you.
	We must be vigilant.
	We must protect the lives of our people.
	I was on the ground in Texas yesterday to meet with Governor Abbott, who is doing, by the way, an incredible job.
	And local officials, so that we could coordinate the very big and unprecedented federal response.
	In difficult times such as these, we see the true character of the American people, their strength, their love, and their resolve.
	We see friend helping friend, neighbor helping neighbor, and stranger helping stranger.
	And together, we will endure and we will overcome.
	To those affected by this storm, we are praying for you and we are here with you Every single step of the way.
	And I can speak, I know, for the people in this room every step of the way.
	Thank you.
	To those Americans who have lost loved ones, all of America is grieving with you, and our hearts are joined with yours forever.
	The citizens of Texas and the Gulf Coast need all the prayers, support, and resources our communities have to offer.
	Recovery will be tough, but I have seen the resilience of the American spirit firsthand all over this country.
	To the people of Houston and across Texas and Louisiana, we are here with you today.
	We are with you tomorrow, and we will be with you Every single day after to restore, recover, and rebuild.
	Our thoughts and prayers remain firmly with the citizens and our fellow people.
	People, great, great people, all affected by this tragedy.
	We're also glad to be back in the heartland with the very, very fine folks of Missouri.
	Thank you.
	And I said to Senator Blunt, and I said to Billy Long on the plane coming in.
	Can I say Missouri?
	Or should I say Missouri?
	Okay?
	And they said, whatever you want is okay.
	So I said, go.
	But I'm especially pleased to be here in Springfield, the birthplace of a great American icon, the legendary Route 66.
	Who would have known that?
	This is the place where the main street of America got its start.
	And this is where America's main street will begin its big, beautiful combat that you're always you are seeing it right now.
	This is a comeback of historic proportions.
	You're seeing it happen right now.
	Right?
	You're saved.
	We're here today to launch our plans to bring back Main Street by reducing the crushing tax burden on our companies and on our workers.
	APPLAUSE Our self-destructive tax code cost Americans millions and millions of jobs, trillions of dollars, and billions of hours spent on compliance and paperwork.
	And you have seen what's happening with regulations.
	They're going fast.
	We need regulations, but many of them are unnecessary, and they are going fast.
	Thank you.
	That is why the foundation of our job creation agenda is to fundamentally reform our tax code for the first time in more than 30 years.
	I want to work with Congress, Republicans, and Democrats alike on a plan that is pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-worker, and pro-American.
	Applaus
	There is no more fitting place to launch this effort than right here in the American heartland, surrounded by hard-working men and women whose skill, determination, and drive are truly second to none.
	APPLAUSE And by the way, before I start, Ivanka Trump, I see my beautiful daughters in the audience.
	Stand out, brother.
	Thank you.
	She's working very hard.
	I'm very proud of Ivanka.
	For many decades, Route 66 captured the American spirit.
	The communities along this historic route were a vivid symbol of America's booming industry.
	Truck drivers hauled made in America goods along this vital artery of commerce.
	Families passed through bustling towns on their way to explore the great American West.
	And high quality manufacturing jobs lifted up communities, gave Americans a paycheck that could support a family.
	Mr. Cook is a great example of the people that do it.
	Stand up.
	CHEERING AND APPLAUSE I think they like you.
	And provided millions of our fellow citizens with the pride and dignity that comes with work.
	But in recent years, millions of Americans have watched that prosperity slip away in the rear view mirror.
	And it wasn't pleasant to watch, especially for me.
	I would sit back, I was in business, and I could see what was happening.
	Wasn't good.
	If we want to renew our prosperity and to restore opportunity, then we must reduce the tax burden on our companies and on our workers.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	In the last 10 years, our economy has grown at only around 2 percent a year.
	You look at other countries and you look at what their GDP is.
	They're unhappy when it's seven, eight, nine, and I speak to them, leaders of the countries.
	How are you doing?
	Not well, not well.
	Why?
	GDP is down to 7 percent.
	And I'm saying we were hitting 1 percent just a number of months ago.
	So we're going to change that around, folks, that I can tell you.
	And we're going to change it around first.
	Thank you.
	And today, a very appropriate day that this should happen, we just announced that we hit 3 percent in GDP.
	It just came out.
	And on a yearly basis, as you know, the last administration during an eight-year period never hit 3 percent.
	So we're really on our way.
	If we achieve sustained 3 percent growth, that means 12 million new jobs and 10 trillion dollars of new economic activity over the next decade.
	That's some numbers.
	And I happen to be one that thinks we can go much higher than 3 percent.
	There's no reason why we shouldn't.
	So this is our once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver real tax reform for everyday hard-working Americans, and I am fully committed to working with Congress to get this job done.
	And I don't want to be disappointed by Congress.
	Do you understand me?
	You understand.
	understand congress I think Congress is going to make a comeback.
	I hope so.
	Tell you what, the United States is counting on it.
	All right, by the way, with the President in Springfield, Missouri for stations along the Sean Hannity Show Network know that we are continuing our coverage through your local break.
	If you decide to break away, we understand.
	And for listeners, you can call the local station.
	Blame them, not us.
	All right, back to the president.
	That means getting rid of the loopholes and complexity that primarily benefit the wealthiest Americans and special interests.
	Our last major tax rewrite was 31 years ago.
	It eliminated dozens of loopholes and special interest tax breaks, reduced the number of tax brackets from 15 to 2, and lowered tax rates for both individuals and businesses.
	At the time it was really something special.
	Since then, our tax laws have tripled in size, and the tax code itself now spans more than 2,060 pages, and most of it is not understandable.
	Tax rates have increased, and special interest loopholes have crept back into the system.
	The tax code is now a massive source of complexity and frustration for tens of millions of Americans.
	In 1935, the basic 1040 form that most people file had two simple pages of instruction.
	Today, that basic form has 100 pages of instructions, and it's pretty complex stuff.
	The tax code is so complicated that more than 90 percent of Americans need professional help to do their own taxes.
	This enormous complexity is very unfair.
	It disadvantages ordinary Americans who don't have an army of accountants while benefiting deep-pocketed special interests.
	And most importantly, this is wrong.
	First and foremost, thank you.
	First and foremost, our tax system should benefit loyal, hardworking Americans and their families.
	Thank you.
	That is why tax reform must dramatically simplify the tax code, eliminate special interest loopholes, and I'm speaking against myself when I do this, I have to tell you.
	And I might be speaking against Mr. Cook, and we're both okay with it.
	Is that right?
	It's crazy.
	We're speaking, maybe we shouldn't be doing this, you know?
	But we're doing the right thing.
	True.
	And allow the vast majority of our citizens to file their taxes on a single simple page without having to hire an accountant.
	Second, we need a competitive tax code that creates more jobs and higher wages for Americans.
	It's time to give American workers the pay raise that they've been looking for for many, many years.
	In 1986, Ronald Reagan led the world by cutting our corporate tax rate to 34 percent.
	That was below the average rate for developed countries at the time.
	Everybody thought that was a monumental thing that happened.
	But then, under this pro-America system, our economy boomed.
	It just went, it just went beautifully right through the roof.
	The middle class thrived, and median family income increased.
	Other countries saw the success.
	They looked at us, they saw what is America doing, what's happening with the United States, and they acted very swiftly by cutting their taxes lower and lower and lower and reforming their tax systems to be far more competitive than ours.
	Over the past 30 years, the average business tax rate among developed nations fell from 45 percent to less than 24 percent, and some countries have an unbelievably low tax, including, by the way, China and some others that are highly competitive and really doing very well against us.
	They are taking us, frankly, to the cleaners.
	So we must, we have no choice.
	we must lower our taxes.
	And your senator, Claire McCaskill, She must do this for you, and if she doesn't do it for you, you have to vote her out of office.
	Thank you.
	She's got to make that commitment.
	She's got to make that commitment.
	She doesn't do it, just can't do this anymore with the obstruction And the obstructionists.
	If we don't get tax cuts and reform approved, potentially the biggest ever, we're looking for the biggest ever.
	Jobs and our country cannot take off the way they should.
	And it could be much worse than that.
	But at a minimum, they won't take off the way they should.
	The Dems are looking to obstruct tax cuts and tax reform, just like they obstructed so many other things, including administration appointments and health care.
	Not one vote.
	We got not one vote to try and fix health care and get rid of Obamacare.
	The strategy of our economic rivals has worked.
	They made their taxes lower and far lower in many cases than ours.
	And jobs left our country.
	Large corporations changed their business models by exporting jobs to other countries and then shipping their goods back to the United States, where they'd make massive profits and they wouldn't be paying tax to us either.
	So we lost the jobs, we lost the taxes, they closed the buildings, they closed the plants and factories.
	We got nothing but unemployment.
	We got nothing.
	Other businesses, even classic American brands, switched their headquarters to foreign countries.
	Because of this and other reasons, like weak borders, America remains stuck in the past.
	Although I have to tell you, we have General Kelly here today, and we stopped 78% going up to 80% on the border traffic coming through in just a short period of time.
	He's done some job.
	Whole different world out there right now.
	Today, we are still taxing our businesses at 35 percent, and it's way more than that.
	And think of it, in some cases, way above 40 percent when you include state and local taxes in various states.
	The United States is now behind France, behind Germany, behind Canada, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and many other nations.
	Also, with these countries and almost every country, we have massive trade deficits, numbers that you would not believe.
	But this administration is going to fix that one by one.
	We're fixing it.
	We're working right now on NAFTA, the horrible, terrible NAFTA deal that took so much business out of your state and out of your cities and towns, and we're working on it.
	Let's see what happens.
	Mexico is not happy.
	But as I told them, you made a lot of money for a lot of years, and everybody left you alone.
	We've got to change this deal, and hopefully we can renegotiate it.
	But if we can't, we'll terminate it, and we'll start all over again with a real deal.
	APPLAUSE So when it comes to the business tax, we are dead last.
	Can you believe that?
	So this cannot be allowed to continue any longer.
	America must lead the way, not follow from behind.
	We have gone from a tax rate that is lower than our economic competitors to one that is more than 60 percent higher.
	We have totally surrendered our competitive edge to other countries.
	We have totally surrendered.
	We're not surrendering anymore.
	Thank you.
	All right, so the President in Springfield, Missouri today warning Claire McCaskill, uh, either she gives you your tax cuts or you should vote her out of office and saying, Okay, uh, Congress, do your job.
	You haven't done so well so far, and it is the proper challenge.
	Uh all right.
	When we come back, we have a busy day today.
	It pretty much continues the speech a little bit longer, and he outlines his tax proposal, which you heard a lot of there.
	Uh we'll touch on that.
	We'll touch on his comments on Hurricane Harvey.
	We've got some of the heroes of Hurricane Harry Harvey, people on the ground, people donating.
	We'll get to that.
	Diamond and Silk will make you laugh today.
	We continue our investigation into the Debbie Wasserman Schultz case.
	Well, that's all coming up, and your calls 800-941 Shawn is our number.
	When we come back, the news of the day and your reaction straight ahead.
	All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
	Uh an incredible speech in Springfield by the president.
	We'll get back to that in a second.
	We have great stories of neighbor helping neighbor coming up in the course of the program.
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	Um, you know, I really I've got to say this.
	We are very blessed with some of the best, nicest people, supportive advertisers.
	And when we come under fire, I mean it's unbelievable how our advertisers rally around you, this show, this audience, because you've been so loyal in supporting them.
	And without your support, believe me, there are more than a million people that want to see the show go away.
	And and one person that also has taken heat just because he supports the president, is the inventor of my pillow.
	And you know, you can go to my pillow.com, 800 nine one nine-six zero nine zero.
	It's the best pillow I've ever had.
	And I just become friends with Mike Lindell.
	He's the inventor of my pillow, and I have my pillows everywhere.
	I have to go my pillows.
	I literally need four of them.
	I surround myself, two for the back of my head, one for the top, and one on the side for my arm.
	I know it sounds ridiculous, but I sleep better than I ever have, and I'm not the best sleeper, but I've gotten better than ever.
	Anyway, so I was just texting with Mike yesterday, and he goes, Yeah, you know, I just want you to know I'm I think I I think I'm just gonna send pillows over, and then I found out he sent sixty thousand pillows.
	Sixty thousand.
	And it's one of the just you know, the many, many stories of people.
	Samaritan's Purse, they're on the ground.
	All of the Cajun Navy guys, Waco Navy guys, military experts using their training to save lives.
	Incredible stories of neighbor helping neighbor.
	And I just asked Mike Lindell to come on, tell us quickly what he's been doing.
	Uh sixty thousand pillows.
	That is extraordinarily generous of you.
	And you know what?
	I bet you it's gonna end up for a lot of people to be the one comfort when they lay their head down at night.
	If they've never had a my pillow, they're gonna be in love with it like I am.
	Yeah, Sean, it was it's been a blessing for my platform to be able to even do this, and we're uh we're heading down uh we I'm actually sending a crew down to help too, and we're have a sixty thousand pillows we're sending initially here could end up being a lot more.
	But uh another thing I wanted to quick say if I can.
	The uh we last summer when I met the president, I was telling him about my foundation where it's a pass-through energy where my pillow and my glendell pays all the overheads, so any money donated is to these to these causes was gonna be a hundred percent pass through with no overhead.
	And we were gonna launch that um up in um in Minneapolis and in Detroit.
	Well, now with what's happening in Houston.
	We're launching that right now as we speak on your show.
	So if anybody goes to the Lindell Foundation.org and wants to donate, you can rouse your shirt a hundred percent of your money with no over here.
	Another no overhead cost at all.
	That's almost unheard of for any charity.
	Yeah, zero.
	I'm covering every every every part of it, every you know, if you put in a five dollars, five dollars is gonna go to to someone in need down there in Houston surrounding communities.
	And we uh my board, we're gonna we're working with the organizations in the area to make sure that uh you know that we that everybody gets helped and we're gonna try as much as we can to get uh um to get as much uh funds as we can to help out but uh I just thought it'd be great to uh to announce this now where people can know you know and nowadays you know people people with foundations and such you don't know how much your money really gets there but we pay all the overshed I guess well I want to help you with your foundation we we've helped out Samaritans Purse and
	we got another p uh group that we're helping and you know I just I mean I watch every day and I see what everybody else is doing and I'm just blown away by everybody's generosity and uh you know I'm sure that sixty thousand pillows are are not inexpensive and uh but I will tell you this it's gonna make a difference for all those people that are are sleeping in conditions that are less than desirable the listen I need a pillow to go fall asleep.
	I mean I I just do.
	Um well it'll be hopefully it'll be a little uh a little bright spot in there on this whole in this uh all these other tragic uh things that are going on down there and to get sleep for anything is so important and um the uh like I say this is just the start we're sending sixty thousand down and my my crew's gonna be there on uh Friday morning and we're gonna be working all over the um all over with all different community communities all around Houston and the other and the other Rockport and all the ones who were hit hard.
	Well anyway I you know it's an honor to become a friend of yours.
	Uh let's stay in touch over the weekend.
	Let me know if there's anything I could do for for your it's it's Lindell foundation.org.
	Yeah Lindo Foundation dot org.
	Basically we're just using it as a tool we're gonna have the thing up there with Houston right now as we speak.
	You put your whatever you put in it goes right to the people in need.
	There's no like I say I'm even paying um every fee every every over you're paying all the overhead costs.
	That's amazing.
	Yep yep so I just wanted uh we take advantage of this uh of any uh of these tragics I think well in case people forget which they might I just linked it to Hannity.com now so that it'll be easy access.
	Mike Lindell you're a great friend a great American that's extraordinarily generous and I know our friends down in Houston and surrounding areas are going to be very very happy that you're sending that and we'll stay in touch throughout the next week.
	I mean this is going to be a long term rebuild and uh our thoughts and prayers are obviously with all those people.
	Thank you sir.
	Well thanks Sean it's an honor to be on your show and God bless you and everyone and uh we'll talk soon.
	All right my friend Mike Lindell MyPillow MyPillow dot com and of course eight hundred nine one nine six zero nine zero.
	We'll link his uh his foundation to the website.
	Um you know I want to just go over some things.
	So the president started out today.
	Do you know that President Obama was the first president in American history on top of thirteen million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty, the lowest labor participation rate since the seventies for his recovery since the forties lowest home ownership rate in f in fifty one years and doubling the national debt.
	More more debt than every other president before him combined do you know he's the only president though that never reached three percent GDP growth do you know the president just by doing what he's done personally picking up a phone encouraging businesses and changing the business environment and ending burdensome regulations.
	I went through a whole list on TV the other night, last week.
	Do you know that we now have 3% GDP growth in the country?
	And the second quarter was revised upward from 2.6 to 3%.
	Now, repealing Obamacare is going to help that more.
	And if they can pass the economic plan, seven brackets to three, middle class tax cuts, which are desperately needed, if we could get corporations at a low tax rate and repatriated money that are trillions overseas that,
	people can't bring into the country because of the confiscatory rates if that corporate money gets spent the multi corporate multinational corporation money gets spent and factories are built here and manufacturing centers are built here and energy the president now has opened up and we move towards energy independence.
	That's going to be millions of high paying career jobs for people there's no telling I I I mean, this country will be infinitely better off in every way imaginable.
	Because economics will impact people's view of the country and life.
	It's so important.
	Now, that was one of his major campaign promises that he wanted to get above 3% GDP.
	And he set the goal and he's reached it.
	And he's done it, frankly, without a lot of help from Congress.
	I mean, I gotta tell you, this is if Congress would just get off their Trump hating bandwagon.
	We'd be so much better off.
	And everybody forgets the forgotten men and women.
	It's sort of like the pettiness of the news media.
	Oh, let's talk about shoes.
	I mean, shoes, I've got a hole in my shoe.
	I found out two days ago.
	Can we confirm that everybody have a hole in my shoe?
	Because you're the one that would not stop talking about how is it possible I have a hole in my show?
	Yes, I can confirm that Sean Hannity.
	Now, take a picture of it, but has a hole in his shoe.
	And why do I this is not okay?
	All right, stop.
	I can't stand hearing that.
	It drives me nuts.
	No, but the point is, I didn't know I had a hole in my shoe until you pointed it out.
	And I don't, I'm not changing my shoes because it hasn't the hole isn't big enough that it actually hit hits my foot.
	It hurts.
	So why should why do I need a new pair of shoes?
	Why?
	So I can show everybody I got the latest, greatest.
	Look at my look at my, you know, uh MA's bag.
	Look at my Louis Vatican.
	I don't care about that stuff.
	I just couldn't care a rip.
	You know, look at my why don't we get a red bottom of my shoe and I'll say it's really expensive?
	I mean, why don't we do that?
	I've never understood that.
	You're laughing because you know it's true.
	Come on in, I'll color it for you right now.
	You got crayons in there.
	Um, you know, the Houston mayor ignored the 2016 warning that this storm would be monster.
	He's the only person that I can see politically that did it.
	You know, we'll have other great stories to the for to hack to get through something as traumatic as what the people in Texas have gone through.
	You need three components.
	You need the people, neighbor helping neighbor.
	We've seen more inspiring stories than I've seen since 9-11.
	You know, remember 9-11, how inspiring that was.
	The worst moment in our country's history, and you see the best out of people.
	You see it down in Texas.
	And it just is inspiring.
	It just shows what we're capable of as a country, as a society.
	But the media only wants to focus in on hating Trump and Melania's shoes.
	And I'm thinking, you idiots, people are dying.
	People are suffering.
	They just lost everything they they care about in life, and that's all you people want to do is hate on the president.
	And I'm thinking, and it's just like all of the distractions about Russia, and he's gonna start nuclear war and racist, racist, racist.
	All of that serves nobody except themselves and their effort to delegitimize overturn an election.
	Which is basically what they wanted to do.
	By the way, U.S. missiles, uh, missile defense warning shot at North Korea.
	Trump administration fired a warning shot in North Korea's direction this morning, conducting a missile defense test halfway across the Pacific that demonstrated the capacity to take out Pyongyang's medium range missiles.
	This is beautiful.
	What a great move.
	Anyway, the test was done from the USS John Paul Jones and comes a day after North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan.
	Now the test uh using standard Missile Six uh guided systems, intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile target.
	You know what's next?
	I'm gonna tell you what's next.
	The next time Kim Jong-un or one of these future times, he fires a missile, we're gonna shoot that sucker out of the sky.
	Then let's see how tough he is.
	One of the saddest things we've learned this week that nobody paid attention to is the Obama administration was likely hiding information about Iran illicitly ferrying militants into Syria on commercial aircraft to promote the landmark nuclear deal.
	That's how dumb Obama was.
	But nobody seems to really care about that.
	Now, later in the program, I think this is one of the biggest unreported Stories out there, and that is the very odd indictment of this IT guy that was working for Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
	And when you look at this particular case and the guy who had all the money, yeah, you've heard his name a million times before.
	But anyway, uh Imra uh Imran is his name.
	Luke Rosiak who's with the Daily Caller, and he's been really good at this.
	Um, why did she keep him on the payroll?
	Why did he have people that had been fired from McDonald's on the payroll?
	Ethan, is something funny in there?
	Can I is there anything I could do for you?
	Because you could go take a walk as far as I'm concerned if you're gonna be obnoxious.
	No, no, no.
	Now look at him, his face is beat red.
	You don't like getting called out.
	All right, I didn't have the guy's name off the top of my head, I admit I looked.
	Awfully sensitive.
	You could have just moved on, but no, you just caught him out.
	I did look at his face.
	It's be it's tomato red in there.
	I'm just teaching him a lesson, so he doesn't do it again.
	No, you were read before that laughter.
	I'm Irish.
	Okay, I'm Irish too.
	My face is just tan.
	Uh uh, you know.
	All right, we're gonna get into all that Luke Rosiak today.
	Uh oh, we've got the debate of a century.
	Katie Hopkins and Geraldo Rivera, they're gonna debate.
	Oh, Kathy Griffin now pulls back her apology on the severed ISIS pose head of Donald Trump and blood.
	And then we've got some of the heroes of Texas are gonna join us today, and we will check.
	Oh, Diamond and Silk are gonna put a smile on your face.
	They're always fun.
	All right.
	It's my Friday, and don't get um people oh, you're off again.
	I don't take a lot of vacation.
	I don't have a lot of vacation to take.
	This is pretty much it till Thanksgiving.
	You know, one week, that's it for the whole summer.
	Everybody else in media's been off this week.
	And I've been doing my job, and I'm in tonight.
	All right, we got some stories, some heroes that we will be introducing to you today.
	We also have an investigation when we get back.
	Why is the media ignoring the Debbie Wasserman Schultz IT scandal?
	Well, on top of the fact that they're biased.
	Also, we've got Katie Hopkins, Geraldo Rivera, and so much more.
	Diamond and Silk join us today on the Sean Hannity show.
	Straight ahead.
	Let me just be very clear.
	At no point during my tenure at the DNC was I contacted by the FBI, DHS, or any government agency or alerted or made aware that they believed that the Russians, a an enemy state was intruding on our network.
	At no point.
	And I am a member of Congress who had the ability to sit down and be briefed in a classified setting.
	Even Director Comey testified publicly that he wished that he had gone to the top of the organization.
	Secretary Johnson says the DNC rebuffed the help that they offered.
	You're saying that no one ever could you respectfully, the Secretary Johnson is is is utterly misinformed.
	That is simply not accurate.
	And much that has been has been written about the timeline of events by the New York Times, the Washington Post, that document through multiple sources, including me, uh, that uh that the FBI and other federal agencies did virtually nothing to make sure that when they were aware,
	at the point that they were aware that there was or concerned that there was an intrusion on our network by the Russians, that they did virtually nothing to sound the alarm bells to make us aware of that.
	And they left essentially the Russians on our network for more than for almost a year.
	Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second class citizens.
	Some of them in Congress right now, that was G Morning Woman would love to see you and me.
	I'm sorry, Chairman.
	Hanging on a tree.
	Some of you right now in Congress are comfortable with where we were 50 and 60 years ago, but it's a new day where the president and the professional black office really helped be serving every year.
	All right, glad you're with us.
	Sean Hannity Show, 800-941-SEAN.
	If you want to be a part of the program, hour two of our program today.
	And I want to get back into something that the media is forever and always going to ignore because it seems like they've got their agenda and only their agenda, and they're not going to pursue truth or to get information out to you, the American people.
	Now there's some very strange and bizarre things happening as it relates to Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the handling of this IT guy.
	The IT guy was caught double billing.
	She keeps him on the payroll for nearly a year, and then we see that people that apparently have no IT experience that were working at McDonald's in a car wash or a car dealership, rather, that they actually have the ability to get IT payments when we have no evidence they ever had any IT experience.
	Anyway, it is we've got an update on all of this.
	This former IT aide that is suspected of stealing the equipment, and then you got the broken government hard drives in his in his garage, still has an active secret email account on his house computer system.
	This is the guy that's funneling 300 grand of Pakistan and trying to sneak out of the country uh and and get the heck out of here.
	And even though he had a an ankle bracelet according to reports.
	Now, anyway, so he has a secret email.
	He's been banned from the congressional network because of the criminal investigation and indictment into alleged cybersecurity violations.
	The daily caller, Luke Rosiak, has been all over this story.
	And Imran Owan's still active email address is linked to the name of a house staffer who specializes in intelligence and homeland security matters for Indiana Democratic Congressman Andre Carson, according to documents and emails that actually show Awan use the address in addition to his standard HouseGov address.
	Now the mail was sent via Gmail files in the name of the account holder as Nathan Bennett, who, if you look online and you looked at his profile and LinkedIn and some of these other places, it says his individual legislative portfolio covers national security, foreign affairs, and includes work on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
	The member Bennett works for Carson, is a member of both the House Intelligence and Homeland Security Committees.
	And Carson is the ranking member of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, which oversees the office of Director of National Intelligence.
	And the subcommittee oversight then extends to the National Counterterrorism Center in terms of information sharing programs.
	So none of this makes sense.
	And you gotta believe that there's got to be some type of security implications here.
	And just like in the case of Hillary Clinton, we've got more government hard drives busted, and we've got more issues that involve the potential security breaches, because we know in Hillary's case, 33,000 deleted subpoenaed emails, bleach bit, acid washed, busted up.
	And what did this guy know?
	Why does he still have access?
	When's the last time he accessed this account?
	Luke Rosiak from Investigative Reporter with the Daily Caller is with us.
	How are you, sir?
	I'm good.
	Thanks for having me, Sean.
	All right, let's go into this very, very bizarre happening in this other email account that this guy had, and do we know how recently it was used?
	I don't know how recently uh it was used.
	I know that he's been using it for years, and it's one two three at mail.house.gov, which is just like totally bizarre.
	Normally, of course, you have first name dot last name.
	And people say he was using uh this government email address to basically intimidate them.
	It seems like uh who knows who's emailing you from the house.
	If it's one two three, he could tell you he's Paul Ryan.
	Who knows what he's doing?
	So I would assume that he probably still has access to it, considering it's still in existence, right?
	Right.
	So when the the police banned him in February 2nd, his real email address, Imron Datawan, when you send emails to that, it immediately started bouncing back.
	When they cut him off, that means you can't send emails to it.
	With this address, you can continue even today to send email addresses to one two three and mail to have that guy.
	It doesn't bounce back, the email address is still active.
	What do you think about Debbie Wasserman Schultz after this guy was caught double billing, and it appeared that when you hire people that work at McDonald's in a car dealerships, I can't imagine they were working there if they had this great IT experience and background that they should be have access to some of our intelligence secrets.
	Right.
	And he, you know, in addition to being uh investigated for double billing, and authorities have mounds of evidence uh to that effect.
	Uh the investigation is also into uh a secret server, uh taking lawmakers' information and putting it somewhere where it shouldn't be and lawmakers also have plenty of evidence on that.
	So, you know, that's all uh it's all known.
	This has been going on since 2016.
	The cops ban him in February 2nd, uh, and Wasserman Schultz continues to employ him, even though he was banned from touching the network, and she made up a bunch of reasons like saying, Oh, he's gonna plug in printers, and somehow that doesn't constitute working on the network.
	And I think the question in everyone's mind is hey, if you still have this guy poking around the Capitol building coming to work and being on the premises, i you know, is there a risk here that he's gonna still access the network?
	Is he gonna interfere with the investigation somehow?
	How is it possible the AP, the New York Times ignore the Wasserman Schultz Democratic IT scandal?
	How how is that possible?
	And the next question I have is you know, how is the DNC?
	We remember after the WikiLeaks documents that came out just before the DNC convention.
	Remember that was a big deal, and the information was a huge reveal.
	And how the DNC handled it, remember they wouldn't turn their servers over to the FBI.
	They refused to.
	Do you think these are related?
	I I think the response here I think that's a great point.
	The response is there's so many parallels.
	Basically, what we have now here is uh authorities have a lot of evidence, they have all these vouchers, uh equipment being built fraudulently, no show employees, uh a secret server, uh, but they haven't been charged with all that stuff just yet.
	And one of the reasons may be that members of Congress are not cooperating.
	After all, they're the victims here uh on the surface.
	So to build a case that they stole from they stole data and money from members of Congress, that may require the testimony of those members, and it's not clear, in fact, there's some reasons to believe, significant reasons to believe, that members are uh protecting this guy and they're not wanting to criticize.
	But you know, for those other media outlets out there and anyone who's questioning the story, I mean, make mo make no mistake, when you delve into the details and you look at the public records and you talk to the appropriate authorities, this is very real stuff.
	It's a real cybersecurity scandal on the hill, and uh just as uh you know, Democrats have been talking about how bad hacking is, and we've been hearing about that for the last year, and they're right.
	Hacking is bad, hacking is serious, and uh by the same effect.
	I mean, that's what we have here, and it should be treated with equal uh with an equality.
	Well, it's it's not it's not being treated that way, and frankly, you're out there bu on your own as always.
	When you see the deletions and the acid washing of top secret classified special access program information of Hillary and the destruction of devices and the bleach bit used and all of this, and then you see similarities, the the Democratic National Committee won't allow the FBI to look at their computers and then this IT guy who double billed and has all these unqualified people seemingly working for him and is making a fortune,
	and then he ends up with government hard drives smashed in in his garage.
	Is there any way you can connect those two items?
	Or we don't know yet.
	In other words, is it the same information they're trying to get rid of?
	Well, we don't know what's on those hard drives, but we know that he tried to hide whatever it was.
	We know that Debbie Wasserman Schultz uh has gone so far to hire an outside law firm to make sure they don't see what's on a laptop that was found connected to this investigation.
	Uh and and we know that uh his wife fled the country, and you know, she's not coming back when her arraignment date is set, she's not gonna show up and she's gonna become a fugitive, and they've got an early trial date on Friday, so we're gonna see what happens there, not a trial date, excuse me, the preliminary hero.
	Stay right there.
	Luke Rosiak is breaking this Debbie Wasserman Schultz IT story wide open, especially as it relates to Imran Owen.
	Um Andy McCarthy, I thought had a particularly interesting piece on National Review about this about the strange indictment of Debbie Wasserman Schultz IT scammers and what impact all of this may have on national security.
	We're gonna delve deeper into this.
	Also, Dana Rohrbacher on Hannity tonight, we'll do what the rest of the media won't do.
	Is it possible that the whole Russian narrative was an eleven-month conspiracy lie?
	Well, he thinks he seems to think it is.
	So we'll do we'll ask the questions the media won't.
	Ten Eastern tonight.
	All right, as we continue, Luke Rosiak is with the Daily Caller.
	Mainstream media has been ignoring, I think, one of the biggest scandal stories of all time, and that is Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her IT guy that clearly was overpaid, clearly double billed, clearly had people working for him that weren't qualified.
	And now uh our friend Andy McCarthy over at National Review writes a piece, the strange indictment of her.
	Did you read that piece?
	Yeah, I did.
	I thought he made some very uh very good points.
	Well, what do you think?
	I mean, if i uh you have uh a naturalized Americans, you're investigating a husband and a wife.
	They believe have scammed the federal credit union of of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
	You catch them in several lies, false statements about their qualifications for a credit line, and the strongest part of the case involves the the transfer of money to their native Pakistan, and it looks like Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been able to sort of manipulate the media into not seeing this for what it is.
	Yeah, I think that's exactly right.
	I mean, the timeline, and and they try to deflect and they try to with the way the media is everyone, no one's got the attention span to follow the facts.
	But when you look at the timeline, this investigation, they were tipped off that they were the subject of a criminal investigation in late 2016.
	These guys own like seven houses.
	They start frantically selling them off, taking fake loans, taking out the retirement under false circumstances, and wiring the money to Pakistan right after they realize they're the subject of this investigation.
	Now he makes the case there is there are grounds to suspect blackmail.
	What's your reaction to that?
	So the way that members have been hesitant to condemn, to call out, to turn over evidence in this case and to assist with the prosecution of Imran Rawan is extremely unusual.
	Uh for example, Andre Carson, uh, he's a member of the Intelligence Committee, uh from Indiana, one of two Muslims in Congress.
	He's on the uh Homeland Security as well as the Intelligence Committee, and he employed Imran.
	So his office is connected to this fake email address, one two three, the secret email address.
	So I went over there this week to tell them about this secret back door into the network, and uh they didn't seem to care.
	They didn't tell House authorities, there's no evidence of the them, you know, frantically trying to find out what happened.
	Why is this guy using my IT my uh intelligence staffer's name?
	Uh did he get his identity stolen?
	How could our former IT guy have done this?
	They didn't say any of that.
	Um none of these Democrats will say a bad word about Imram, who is again, they're his victims.
	He stole their data, he stole their money.
	Uh and and why did they let this guy's wife leave the country when there were many reasons to arrest her at that point?
	Right.
	So, you know, the the what they've tr what they've been charged with is just the cover-up, not the crime.
	It's just a way to keep them here, but it remains to be seen whether prosecutors will um bring those charges or not, and whether what the hold up here is needing the cooperation of members of Congress.
	Now you're obviously following these cybersecurity issues uh closely.
	We have Dana Rohrbacher on TV tonight.
	Do you have any thoughts about Julian Assange, who was the person that would know uh the DNC email league says it's not Russia?
	He has the proof it's not Russia.
	Is it possible the whole country fell for a lie and a conspiracy for nearly a year?
	Well, the only thing that I know is that the DNC under Washington Schultz wouldn't let the FBI see that server.
	And just a couple weeks later, she was told that her own IT guy on the House was the subject of a criminal investigation, and she yelled at the cops and said that the cops had framed her IT guy out of Islamophobia.
	And the facts don't support that.
	The facts support that this guy is a liar and he's pulling all kinds of schemes.
	So uh, you know, we see a real pattern here between the two, and it's it it's something's not right.
	Something's not right.
	This is not gonna end well for the liberal media and the Democrats.
	That's my prediction.
	All right, Luke Gorozia, I get to meet you in person tonight.
	Uh you're on Hannity on the Fox News Channel, uh, and we're also investigating Dana Rohrbacher's meeting with Julian Assange, and does Julian have evidence that it was never Russia in terms of Trump Russia collusion and the releasing of the emails.
	We'll get to that.
	Ten Eastern tonight, Hannity on the Fox News Channel.
	We'll take a quick break, we'll come back, we'll continue on the other side.
	We got uh two people, everyday heroes uh of the hurricane down in Texas, and they've been trying to use their monster truck to get people out of of those areas that are flooded.
	Unbelievable stories of neighbor helping neighbor will continue that.
	And then we have the debate of the century, the gobby one, Katie Hopkins and Heraldo Rivera and Diamond and Silk stop by on what is my Friday today.
	We'll continue.
	All right, 25 till the top of the hour, right down our toll free telephone number.
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	You know, I've been saying all week as we've been watching this whole tragedy unfold in Texas.
	If you want to be successful, and I know now we've what lost 19 people confirmed, maybe more soon.
	Um, but if you want to be successful in any type of recovery effort, you really need three components.
	You need a what we've watched in Texas, and that's neighbor helping neighbor, and and just people standing up, taking responsibility, helping people out, lending their boats, getting on their boats.
	Then you got the the professionals that come in and volunteer their time and their expertise and their training, like the Cajun Navy and the Waco Navy, you know, ex-military guys, ex-law enforcement people, and and they've now mastered the art of saving people in situations just like we've seen down in in the Houston area, the the Texas area, and they've all been amazing.
	The next component is you need competent state and local government.
	And with the one exception of the Houston mayor who told everybody uh to go back to their homes and wouldn't take the governor's call at the time.
	You had full and complete state-local government cooperation.
	Then you had great coordination between the state and the White House and the federal government and the president.
	They're sending 30,000 National Guard troops down there for what is going to be a very difficult transition for so many of these people that lost their homes.
	But to me, the most inspiring thing was at the height of this in the moment, it really takes the neighbor helping neighbor part to make this really successful and to prevent as much death as possible.
	He can't prevent the damage, but you can help the people.
	That was my biggest complaint about Katrina when I saw a entire yard of empty buses.
	And I had Jesse Jackson on the on the program, I think it was TV or radio I don't remember after the fact.
	And this conversation actually took place.
	I said, Well, you know, he's blaming George W. Bush, and I'm saying, well, what about the Democratic governor and the Democratic incompetent mayor?
	You know, Ray, this is going to be a chocolate city naked, you know, who's eating, you know, food in a hotel and watching dead bodies float by with lion Brian Williams at an area that wasn't even flooded.
	And how incompetent he was.
	I mean, he couldn't even keep his police department on track to stay on their job because he wasn't doing anything.
	And there's no leadership on the ground.
	And then I said to Reverend Jackson, Reverend, why do they have all those buses there?
	I mean, it's just the greatest evidence of how incompetent government can be.
	And he goes, Well, hey, what are they supposed to do with the buses?
	And I said, put the key in?
	And then he goes, then what?
	Turn on the engine, and then what?
	Uh go pick up the people that need help and get them out of harm's way.
	And he goes, Where are you supposed to take your people?
	And I said, away from the hurricane.
	And that's a true story.
	And that didn't happen in this case.
	And I know that everybody, you know that Trump did a good job because the only thing they can criticize is the fact that he has his wife was wearing high heels out of the White House, not even on the ground in Texas, where she had sneakers on.
	I mean, it's so petty, it's so despicable.
	And then they say, Well, you didn't show enough empathy, though.
	I I don't know how you show empathy by not when you show up, you coordinate, you do your job, you get FEMA on the ground, 8,500 employee uh federal employees, 30,000 National Guard troops.
	I mean, what did they want him to do to go to you know go and catch the rain in a bucket?
	It's so ridiculous.
	And I said last week, if if Donald Trump cured cancer, it wouldn't be enough for those people that hate him, especially in the media and in the Democratic Party.
	It's so despicable.
	People are dying and they're worried about high heels.
	That's how pathetic these people are.
	And there's no going back for them.
	They're just they've so they're so gone and devoid themselves of empathy, reality, human understanding, and compassion.
	Anyway, Travis Hertzing is with us as well as uh Aaron Nearbon, and they're just two everyday heroes, two of the many of Hurricane Harvey.
	Travis has been out there using his monster truck.
	We showed some of these last night on Hannity uh to get out into the Houston area and and rescue those who are stranded, and Aaron and his organization, Troops Direct.
	They've been contacted by the Texas National Guard.
	They're donating supplies to the troops, you know, 750,000 bottles of Gatorade, 200,000 rescue blankets, 800 cots, uh, waterproof boots and gloves.
	We had my buddy Mike Lindell from My Pillow.
	He donated 60,000 pillows yesterday.
	And he said more's coming as needed.
	And uh anyway, welcome both of you to the program, but you're such a key component to making this work.
	Travis, let's first talk about you.
	And what we saw these monster trucks.
	I'm assuming that you can ride this thing and not worry about getting stuck in in these flooded streets, right?
	Yes, sir.
	Uh we we don't have an issue with the majority of the deep water, uh, most of our majority of our big um five ton army trucks can take roughly five feet of water.
	I mean, that's pretty amazing.
	So that means you can use the truck and go pick up people that are in need of assistance, correct?
	Yes, sir.
	That's what we've been doing.
	And how many people do you think you rescued in the course of this whole thing?
	I would say anywhere from two hundred to three hundred and my in my one truck.
	In your one truck.
	Wow.
	Yes, sir.
	I now I let me just play around a little bit.
	Why am I thinking, you know, you pull up to a house and there's people in need and they see your monster truck and they're like, oh, you know, there's got to be a little bit of humor in there that they're getting in a truck that they'd never thought they'd be driving in in their life.
	I know, and uh we try to lighten the mood as best as we can, even with how devastating it is to most of these people uh we crack jokes, you know.
	Once you get in the truck, make sure you see backs and trade tables are in the upright and locked position, and um we just we we try to lighten it up as best as possible, and and everyone luckily has been extremely thankful that we've been there to pick them up.
	Yeah, well, uh I want to just say on behalf of those people that you did save and and the fact that you just dug in and and you're doing everything possible, and you you literally changed the lives of all those people that you took the time to go rescue.
	And Aaron, I I've read a lot about what you guys are doing over at Troops Direct, and and apparently you met with the Lieutenant Governor, I think is a great guy, along with the governor, Dan Patrick, and uh you've been rescuing people with your off-road truck, and and you've also been giving all these supplies over.
	Well, uh hi, Sean.
	Again, first I want to say thank you for all of your support uh that you've given Troops Direct uh today and also in the past, and uh President Trump's done a phenomenal job there uh in the area and what Troops Direct is doing specifically is working with commanders with the Texas National Guard.
	Even prior to the storm hitting Sean, they were contacting us, and we're a nonprofit organization, tell and they were asking us for equipment they knew they would need even before the storm hit.
	And yes, like you said, they have requested Gatorade, and we have shipped almost a million bottles of Gatorade in the last twenty-four hours.
	Waterproof boots, ten thousand cliff bars, uh strike force energy, a Navy CEO ran operation out of Virginia is giving us energy packets that we're shipping out.
	Uh printers for their communication centers, eight hundred cots, all these items that the Texas National Guard needs, Sean, to rescue people, recover the lost, unfortunately, and re-establish infrastructure.
	They're contacting us and we're supplying it because they just can't get it.
	Yeah.
	Uh I I gotta tell you, first of all, it's amazing.
	And uh thank God we got thirty thousand National Guard's troops going down there.
	And you know, th I brought this up with the with the governor last night, Aaron.
	I said, you know, I know we're still in rescue and rescue recovery mode now, and the rebuilding is gonna take a long time.
	There's no ifs, ends, or buts.
	Look, my years in contracting, all those houses half underwater, they're done.
	You gotta knock them down.
	It's it's you gotta start at the beginning, and you probably have to treat the foundation, you know, so you don't have the mold issues.
	And Sean, you know, I'll tell you one of our members of our board of directors lives in Houston, and she has been stuck in her home uh since the weekend, literally living on the second floor of her home.
	And we've been reporting to her everything that we're doing for the guard, and I said, What else can we do?
	She goes, just support the guard.
	They are gonna be the ones to save us.
	Support the guard, support the guard.
	And so that's what you've been doing.
	Yeah, and those guys are all amazing too.
	And you know, I I think if we really look objectively, when you consider the the historic amount of water that has hit this area, and these are areas that nobody ever thought would flood ever, and a lot of these people don't have insurance, so the amount of money that's gonna be needed for the rebuild, and I know the American people will step up and help our family down in Houston.
	That's what we do.
	That's who we are.
	Um, you know, in in spite of everything and all the vile disagreements.
	You know, I mean, uh at the end of the day, I'm not asking the money I donate to Samaritan's Purse whether it's going to a liberal or a conservative.
	It's so stupid at this point.
	You want to help you want to help your fellow neighbor out here.
	You you're exactly right.
	And you know, the one of the majors by rank with uh um with the army that we spoke to down there, I said, How long are you going to be down there for?
	And he goes, It's gonna be months.
	And what I'm one thing I know about our support for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and everywhere else is the public gives immediately, Sean.
	They want to help this week.
	But we gotta remember these great Texans and those in Louisiana and Alabama and everywhere else that are gonna be hit by this are gonna need support for the long haul.
	And our budget at Troops Direct, we're looking at at least a hundred thousand dollars of support just for the guardsmen in the next thirty days.
	And so that's why I'm asking you, Sean, to go to your audience and ask that they make a tax deductible donation to TroopsDirect.org so we can get these guardsmen what they need to help these people out there.
	I'll tell you what, I've donated to the Samarans Samaritan's purse.
	We have that up on my website, right?
	We have the Red Cross up there, I assume, and we're gonna add your group.
	I'm gonna send you guys or wire you guys some money uh later today.
	Linda will work out the arrangements for you.
	But uh look, I I don't want or expect people to go into debt to help out the people of Houston.
	I mean, you gotta manage your money, you gotta take care of business yourself at home.
	Um, but maybe it's just one night out at dinner that you were planning and you just won't go to that dinner or something.
	Whatever it is, if it's ten bucks, fifty bucks, a hundred bucks, it's gonna make a big difference if everybody just puts in a little bit.
	Um I I always say if if uh if your listeners can each give ten dollars, every listener listening today could give ten dollars, just that one meal, one couple cups of coffee.
	What we can do for those guardsmen protecting and recovering those people would be phenomenal.
	Yeah, I agree.
	And Travis, tell us a little bit more about the group of guys you have.
	Rick Leventhal was showing us all those monster trucks that are down there and all the boats that were gearing up for Louisiana.
	I mean, that's where the Cajun Navy has been amazing, the Waco Navy has been amazing.
	Oh, yeah, Sean, these guys have been I mean, honestly the most outstanding stand-up citizens I've ever met.
	Ninety nine percent of the people that are at our shop, we just met them two days ago, and they have given every single minute of their waking day helping, doing anything that they can.
	We have big trucks coming from all around the state, North Texas, East Texas, Louisiana, trucks with boats, big just lifted mud trucks, monster trucks, everything like that.
	Everybody possible is doing what they can to help.
	I mean, it is an all hands on deck situation.
	And uh anyway, listen, I want to say I want to say thank you to both of you.
	You're both uh amazing human beings, and what you're doing is just uh inspiring to all of us.
	Thank you for what you do.
	And we'll make sure to put those links up on Hannity.com and and I know our audience will be extremely responsive uh as they always have been, extraordinarily generous over the many years when when they see their fellow neighbor in need.
	So thank you all for what you're doing, okay?
	And stay on the line and uh and I'll work on that wired transfer to you guys, okay?
	Stay right there.
	By the way, thank God.
	I went to a bank today, and uh thank God uh I don't have to go to a bank very often.
	What a pain in the neck.
	Good grief.
	Quick break, right back.
	We'll continue.
	All right, eight hundred nine four one Sean, our toll-free telephone number.
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	We'll go to Houston, Texas.
	We'll check in with uh Phil is with us.
	Phil, hi, how are you?
	Welcome to the program.
	Is anyone checked in on AJ, big time AJ from Houston?
	He's doing all right.
	I don't know if anyone has.
	What's up, Phil?
	How are you?
	I'm sorry, what's going on down there?
	You okay?
	What happened to you?
	I'm good.
	Well, on Sunday, woke up, my family was okay, but uh on the news that just a few neighborhoods down they weren't.
	So we grabbed a buddy and uh grabbed the canoe with one paddle and tried to go see what we could do.
	And yeah, it was frustrating because there's a lot of people out trying to help, but we just didn't know where to go.
	And so I called the deputy who I would go to church with and just said, Hey, give me an address.
	Tell me where to go.
	So we did.
	And we spent the rest of the day in that one neighborhood trying to get people out.
	And at night when they shut us down, um, because we didn't have likes or anything, I knew I was leaving so many people behind on the second floor of these houses.
	So I just went on Facebook that night and I just said, Come on, guys, we're Texans.
	Let's get a couple boats.
	Let's get a couple friends.
	Let's meet at the uh LDS church in the neighborhood.
	Let's go help people.
	And my phone blew up all night.
	I had people calling me from everywhere.
	I had deputies and sheriffs calling me, and uh an amazing lady who uh used to be a deputy dispatcher.
	And uh starting You got people, you got help, we got addresses.
	So by morning we had over fifty volunteers in 20 boats at our church.
	Um the constables, local constables found out what we were doing and started bringing the vacues over.
	We members of our church immediately started setting up a shelter, and then other face nearby found out what's going on.
	They started donating their services.
	We started coordinating efforts with the other churches.
	And by yesterday, we were dispatching out of our little church over fifty-seven boats for three different sheriff districts.
	It was it was amazing.
	You know what?
	That is uh it's so inspiring to hear such goodness and greatness coming out of the American people.
	I mean, and when you know when push comes to shove, we've seen this before.
	I mean, we're a divided country.
	We're divided after the 2000 vote.
	George W. Bush is president.
	I mean, they were hating on George W. Bush as much as they are Trump uh in many ways, and and nine-eleven happens and our world shifts and our world changes.
	And for a while, I mean, we actually got along and we understood what radical Islamic terrorism was all about.
	Sadly, now too many people have just forgotten what matters.
	And I think especially when if the media is focused on high heels and they're focused on shoes at a time when people are dying and help is needed, and all hands on deck are needed, then you know we got a big problem in this country.
	I mean the president gave a speech today on tax reform and his tax plan that was unbelievably amazing, and the things he said today about Houston were incredibly inspiring, and and it doesn't matter what he does.
	I saw as I said, if he cured cancer, they wouldn't care.
	Anyway, 800 nine four one Sean is a number.
	Quick break, right back, we'll continue.
	You adjust at the time.
	You apologize.
	You were very upset.
	Are you no longer sorry for it?
	Correct.
	I'm no longer sorry.
	The whole outrage was a BS.
	The whole thing got so blown out of proportion, and I lost everybody.
	Do you know what agree that that picture holding out the savage head?
	Oh no, it's a mask coveting Tomato Souls.
	But did you do you not accept that was a little bit off of the line?
	No, you're full of crap.
	Stop this.
	You know this.
	Stop acting like my little picture is more important than talking about the actual atrocities that the president of the United States is committing.
	No, I don't apologize for that photo anymore.
	And I think the outrage is complete BS.
	Because we have real things to deal with.
	Absolutely.
	I don't think I will have a career after this.
	I think he I think he I think he I'm gonna be honest, he broke me.
	He broke me.
	And then I was like, no, this isn't right.
	It's just not right.
	And I apologize because that was the right thing to do, and I meant it.
	And then I saw the tide turning and I saw what they were doing, and I went, Oh, okay, they're trying to spin this and make it about Karen.
	And obviously that was never my intent.
	I would never want to hurt anyone, much less a child, but I started to see what was really happening, and then it was a mob mentality pylon.
	And so many people have expressed too many personally across the country at my shows.
	They're scared.
	So, yeah, I don't know what's I don't know what it is.
	I don't know.
	What do you think about?
	It's it's her phone.
	Yeah.
	It's censorship is what it is.
	I'll say it more.
	I just worked there for ten years.
	Look through the funny on New Year's Eve.
	There's a bunch of old white guys trying to silence me.
	And I'm just here to say that's wrong.
	Oh, isn't that sad?
	You know, I was one of the few people that said, Don't fire Kathy Griffin.
	And she has a right to be as obnoxious and rude.
	Now, it does cross a line, and I don't even think it's really that blurry if you're doing things and saying things that could be a potential threat to the president of the United States.
	I mean, you do have uh Johnny Depp talking about oh, when's the last time an actor assassinated the president of the United States or Robert De Niro saying he wants to punch him in the face and the many other incidences of threats and violence.
	Anyway, here to discuss uh all of this from every aspect of it.
	We have Katie Hopkins, the gobby one from the Daily Mail, UK, and Haraldo Rivera, Fox News host, legal analyst, and uh colleague and and antagonizer of Sean Hannity in all of real life.
	And uh and even a friend.
	I mean, if he'll admit it publicly, which I know he will because he's my brother.
	Um Geraldo, I I'm very sensitive to the idea.
	I mean, her whining and crying and taking back what she said and and my little picture, and if this can happen to me, it can happen to anybody.
	Uh I'm not you know, which is the real Kathy Griffin here.
	First of all, you are my brother from another mother.
	Yeah.
	Second of all, as the father of five, I wanted to pick up that screaming baby.
	I wanted to shout out someone pick up that baby.
	It was hysterical.
	You know, I'm just like you you're an overpaid actress, and and frankly, not even that funny, but what you know, she I'm very torn.
	But you know, we have a lot of latitude in this country.
	A lot of you know, uh, you can make fun of everything, you can make fun of anything.
	The one thing you can't do is to threaten the life of the president of the United States.
	It's a simple statute.
	You cannot do it.
	You can't threaten the life of the president or the first family.
	It's a federal violation.
	Uh it brings in the Secret Service, as Kathy learned to her uh her great uh discomfort.
	Uh they came, they interrogated her.
	It's a very serious matter.
	Some things are just I mean, you maybe you laugh at it.
	Maybe it was a joke that some people found amusing.
	Uh but the it you know, I don't I don't see anything funny about it.
	Well, what about Madonna what about Madonna?
	And you know Madonna well, but with her phony British accent, Katie Hopkins, and she says, you know, I dream an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
	Now I can only imagine if I ever said that.
	Haraldo's my best one of my best friends would call for my firing.
	If Obama was in office.
	Yes, well, of course, and you should be fired for something like that, my darling.
	I was there said those words uh at the women's marches in Washington.
	And to be honest, the crowd went crazy.
	They love that stuff.
	And so I think with Kathy Griffin with Madonna, I think these these individuals, these lunatics, these idiots have the right to say whatever they think.
	I don't really think she should even be fired or lose her job for it.
	But I do think that we have to accept the consequences of the stuff we say, and we can't moan about it when we don't like the consequences.
	So if I tweet something and I'm fired from something, that's my problem.
	I still got to say it, but I have to accept I may well lose my job.
	Or in Kathy's case, she lost some friends over it and her kind of uh uh gigs around the country for her so-called comedy.
	But what I don't like about Kathy Griffin and Madonna for that matter is the idea that they suddenly blame the fact that they're women, they suddenly blame that there's misogynists out there, that it's suddenly because they're female.
	No, it's not because you're female, it's because you're an idiot.
	And above that, you also have ginger hair, and that's inexcusable.
	Oh my god.
	How harsh.
	Oh, ouch.
	By the way, we are not responsible for what guess say on the Sean Hannity show.
	The opinions expressed, or those of the guests and the guest owner.
	That's such a cop out.
	I'm such a wimp.
	You don't need to own it, I'll own it.
	I know you're owning it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So they can't.
	Listen, I happen to be Irish, and there's a lot of people with red hair in my family.
	If you don't mind, you know, he's up on my people, will you?
	Do not my people, me.
	You don't have people and you don't have friends.
	So don't like claim that stuff.
	Just because you paid this guy to come on and pretend to like like you.
	He's not your friend, I'm not your friend.
	And no one likes you.
	Even your producer, Linda, like she completely hates you, and she's just doing this like for penance.
	Wow.
	Get over your friend.
	Wow, get over myself.
	I love you.
	No idea what color my hair is.
	You and me both the lady clearly gray.
	It sounds just for men for me and Haraldo.
	Now, why are you being so mean today, Katie Hopkins?
	Because you, Mr. Hannity, are going on holiday for five days.
	I haven't been on holiday yet, and frankly, if I'm working harder than you, then you're gonna get a tough time.
	With all due respect, I don't think a lot of people work.
	Get your baby noise pay.
	Go on.
	Yeah, and this is a Sean Hannity moan about his life.
	It's so hard being mean.
	Wow.
	No, I I have nothing to complain about, Katie Hopkins.
	No, you do not.
	Oh, I have a holiday coming up, one of the rare holidays I have in my life.
	I'm sorry if it offends you so much.
	No.
	Geraldo, uh you know, but let me go to you know, we we've been talking a lot about these Antifa people.
	Why did it take so long to get a single Democrat to say what I've been saying, and that is there are violent groups of people.
	And even Nancy Pelosi validating that they existed in Charlottesville when when the president said it, everybody went insane.
	But they did exist.
	That's just a fact.
	We've we've shown the video a hundred times.
	You've seen it.
	But the video was the difference.
	The video in Berkeley uh over the last week is what I think put it over the top.
	It was uncontrovertible, or incontrovertible, rather.
	It was uh indisputable.
	It was there you saw it was the Antifa people perpetrating all the violence, and they made uh President Trump's case, the Charlottesville case, for him.
	But I have to say this about the Trump family in all seriousness.
	They are so deeply unpopular with the mainstream media that anything they do that can be ridiculed will be ridiculed.
	Witness what happened with Melania's shoes yesterday, where you had uh uh the President of the United States uh doing the right thing as heeler in cheap, going to uh going to Texas in the midst of this catastrophe, and uh what was everybody fastened on, uh at least in the initial stages, Melania's uh high heels.
	So uh and and ruthlessly, uh but but the thing is you can make fun of the high heels.
	That's fair game.
	Uh well, why is it fair game?
	No, I disagree because if Michelle Obama well, I don't know, I don't remember her going to Sandy Geraldo, and both of us had a lot of friends that lost their homes in Sandy, and I don't remember her being there, and I remember Chris Christie with his big hug of Barack Obama.
	My my point is that there is so much latitude, so many things you can make fun of, whether it's uh c uh distasteful or not, but you cannot, going back to our original discussion, threaten the the life and well-being of the first family.
	That's where she stepped over the ball.
	But what if Sean Hannity said balling on deaf ears.
	What if Sean Hannity said, Oh my gosh, look at what Michelle Obama's wearing.
	What would happen to me?
	Well, you would but you are in the the problem you face when you wake up every morning is just like the president of the United States.
	You know that seventy percent uh of the of the punditry is hostile to you.
	Seventy, any ninety-nine percent.
	You fight back.
	You're you are uh I think you would have I I say this, and I say this uh uh uh unabashedly.
	If you existed on uh with the power you have now during uh 1972, 1973, Richard Nixon would never have been forced to resign.
	You would have protected the office of the presidency against that rinky dink uh, you know, uh second rate burglary.
	Uh you would have uh and and the cover-up that followed, you would have fought against it, uh you would have protected him.
	You you now have changed the equation.
	Now there's comedy on both sides.
	Now there's power on both sides, even though you know that uh, you know, if you were in the House of Commons, you'd be in the back bench because of the uh you're gonna be able to do that.
	Right, stay right there.
	Two uh I don't know if I take all that credit, but I will say this what is what has been thrown at this president is unprecedented, and you have five major forces.
	You know, if you're gonna here's the guy trying to help people, people are dying and they're talking about stilettos and high heels.
	I mean it's so petty and it's so despicable and so out of context and reality of what real lives and suffering are going on, it drives me nuts.
	Uh we'll even bring Katie back in the next segment, although she's beating me up today.
	800 nine four-one Sean is our number.
	You want to be a part of the program more with Katie Hopkins, the mean one, and Horaldo Rivera, straight ahead.
	And as we continue with Geraldo Rivera, Fox News, Katie Hopkins, the Daily Mail, and Katie's being particularly mean to me, but we're talking about where there might be limits on freedom of speech.
	You know, the the one thing that really stands out in my head is, you know, all of these threats collectively about dreaming of blowing up a White House, punching the president in the face.
	When's the last time an actor assassinated a president of the United States?
	And then a severed bloody head and an ISIS pose by Kathy Griffin.
	And you know, I'm just torn on it because I think it's right at that line where any reasonable person would recognize that that is a specific threat, and it certainly delegitimizes and dehumanizes the president, and that could inspire crazy people to go do whatever they're gonna do, Katie.
	I think so too.
	I I also worry that uh Tomorrow is the start of the what I would call the Google purge, you know, where they're gonna close down accounts on YouTube, which I guess is the same kind of conversation.
	We would be very happy if YouTube shut down all of the sites that ISIS are allowed to put their material out on.
	But what we're seeing, of course, is a shutting down of conservative YouTube accounts.
	We're seeing them being demonetized.
	I think two of the lovely ladies is it Diamond and Silk.
	I think they've encountered problems.
	And I think that's what I worry about is where that line is between freedom of speech and then the other way, which is where we get censorship of the internet.
	And that's a curious place for us to find ourselves in twenty seventeen.
	Haraldo, what are your thoughts on that?
	These are really profound questions because you and I both know ISIS is evil.
	And we both know that they trigger sells all around the world through the internet.
	But how do you possibly monitor that?
	In that regard, I have to say, Sean and Kathy, that I I err in favor of censorship, and I'll tell you why.
	The internet has allowed uh a network to be established, no matter how hideous the uh the the people who are having the conversation.
	It'll it allows for the most potent and malignant recruitment uh that you can possibly imagine it is an extremely effective tool that can negate a trillion dollar defense operation uh for fifty cents.
	And if if these I believe that if, for instance, the KKK wanted to talk to the KKK via the internet, let them talk on KKK.com, you know, where it is clearly delineated, you know exactly what you're in, rather than infiltrate rather than disguise.
	I I think that it is incumbent on YouTube, which is Google and Facebook and all the rest of it to monitor this very, very potent line of communication.
	If they had the internet, can you imagine in the second world war?
	Uh the you know, it everybody would have known everything that was going on in the media camp.
	It would crack.
	If we if we take the example from this week, where uh you know, neither you nor I would be a supporter of any of these things, but what we're talking about is whether they should have the freedom.
	Daily Stormer, so that would be the publication that's these are the Nazi people, right?
	Correct.
	But their publication, the near uh Daily Storm was pulled from the internet.
	The guy that hosts it said he was pulling it all.
	So the the Cloud Fair site that hosts it pulled the hosting of it.
	Is that fair then?
	I think the Daily Stormer should have uh a requirement that if you're a daily stormette, then I want I want a list of who's using this.
	But instead they pulled the whole thing.
	I mean you can say anything you want to whomever you want, as long as it doesn't break the law like threatening the life.
	But no, they pulled the whole thing.
	I want to know who you are.
	I don't want a uh uh, you know, uh uh uh fourth column uh no in my in my background.
	Let me ask you a question.
	Well, you said it's fine that we have censorship, you're pro-censorship for ISIS.
	None of us are disagreeing with you, but then they've now censored the daily stormer.
	I'm not a subscriber, nor are you, I'm sure.
	But should they censor the Daily Stormer?
	Where do you stop with your censorship?
	Just because I want to list the Daily Stormer.
	I want a list of the subscribers to the Daily Storm.
	It's wondering if you're gonna send it to them as well.
	And by the way, what do we do, Haraldo, when you know the leftists are in power and they want a list of everybody I talk to, including you and Katie.
	But then why not give it to them?
	Why not?
	I mean, Sean, you have no secrets.
	No, I don't I don't, but but I thought we had first yeah two years ago.
	But what about privacy protection?
	Or the terrorists will use the I don't know.
	I don't know, Haraldo.
	Sean, why are you friends with this guy?
	I mean, really.
	Listen, I never said I agreed with him.
	Hey.
	Listen, I think his mission in life is to poke and prod me in the belongs to you.
	And you want censorship, missional life is a good idea.
	I do not want censorship.
	I do not.
	I mean, he's your friend.
	Oh my god.
	All right, I got we're gonna put you two back together when I get back from holiday.
	Holidays I take so many holidays.
	You need a holiday why your life's so hard, you have to talk on TV and the radio.
	Oh my gosh.
	I'm gonna make you want so hard.
	I'm gonna make I'm gonna make you sing the next time you were back.
	All right, Katie Hopkins, Haraldo.
	Haraldo will see you on TV, but we won't see Katie, thank God.
	Quick break, right back, we'll continue.
	This is my Friday, because we got the big holiday weekend coming up.
	Oh we need these holiday weekends occasionally.
	We don't get enough of them.
	Enough time off.
	Um but they are two of the best, the funniest, kindest, Sweetest people you'd ever meet in real life, and they love their president and they're very outspoken, and they speak out with something that is just too rare today, which is an amazing sense of humor.
	For example, listen to my friends Diamond and Silk here.
	So should and but let's get to Antifa.
	Do you think Antifond should be labeled as a terror group?
	I absolutely do.
	The tactics that they're uses is out of ISIS playbook, as far as I'm concerned.
	We live in a country with laws.
	We have a police.
	We don't need auntie for acting like ISIS in our country.
	That's right.
	Why do you say they act like ISIS?
	Well, because they wear masks, they were black masks like ISIS like.
	Um they go around here bloodying up people, beating people up, beating people up, intimidating, manipulating in order to dominate.
	And that's not right.
	It's wrong.
	That's an ISIS like uh ideology to us.
	And then they're wearing all of this black and then they're raising a black flag.
	That seems a lot like ISIS to me, and they need to be stopped.
	They need to be deemed a terror group just like the KKK and the neo-Noxi.
	anarchist USA We say fight back All right, I think my best moment with Diamond and Silk are when they were actually on this program singing Florida, Georgia Lyme with me in studio.
	Uh Diamond Silk, welcome back to the program.
	How are you?
	Oh, thank you.
	Thank you for having us doing great.
	Everything good?
	You missed me?
	Wasn't it fun to hang out?
	I miss you.
	I miss you a whole lot, but everything's going good.
	Now, you never got back to me because when you were in studio in New York, I I thought I sent you to like my favorite restaurant.
	We we went to your favorite restaurant.
	It was fabulous.
	We had a wonderful time.
	Then we know.
	What now what did you what did you get to eat?
	Oh, let me see.
	Sil Silk, I know she had her big old juicy steak.
	I ordered onion rings.
	Um, it was a lot of food.
	Yeah.
	It was a lot of food, Sean.
	Very well.
	Yeah.
	Well, isn't that uh listen, it is a lot of food, but it's a it's a special occasion kind of place, and you guys being in town is a special occasion.
	All right, let me start with your thoughts on everything that's been happening in Houston, and like everything else, the people that don't like our president are out there attacking them, and they're now attacking the first lady because they didn't like our shoes.
	Well, you know what?
	I think it's a really a sad day in America when you have people that's all they all they just want to attack.
	Listen, I am happy to see that the president and the first lady went down, unlike uh Obama.
	He didn't even go to Louisiana when they had a hurricane.
	And I didn't remember uh Michelle going to um Sandy uh to New Jersey with Sandy hit.
	So the deal is get off of our president and get off the first lady.
	I think they did a phenomenal job going to Texas.
	I mean, it's just so petty.
	Um there's no substance behind any of these attacks, and it seems all they ever want to do is attack them.
	All they want to do is attack him.
	But see, listen, your haters is who make you greater, Sean.
	And see, they only they smear him because they fear him.
	They know he's gonna do great things, and that's what they're upset about.
	That's right.
	All right, let me get both of you because when you do these videos that go so viral, you do it in a way that is, I guess, extemporaneous.
	It's not like you write out every word, it just comes out, right?
	Right, right.
	All right, so I'm gonna give you a topic, and you guys do a commentary.
	Ready?
	All right, attacking the first lady when people are dying in Houston.
	Well, this is okay.
	Well, let's go ahead and let's go with it.
	That's okay.
	This is not the time to be attacking the first lady when we have people that don't have a home.
	That's right.
	That don't even know where their next meal is coming from.
	What we need to do is we need to stand behind the people of Houston, Texas of Texas, to make sure that they know that we as Americans have their back.
	That's right.
	So get off the president and the first lady back, and let's have the the great people of Houston, Texas, and Texas, let's have their back.
	And leave our shoes alone.
	Because I like the shoes, my girl.
	You both you like the shoes.
	Uh the shoes, yeah.
	You know, people were making fun of me the other day because I guess who was the one in there that saw that I had a hole at the bottom of my shoe and was making fun of the hole.
	Oh, it was Linda.
	That's who what Linda made fun of the fact.
	Well, what did you say to me the other day?
	You said, You know you have a hole in your shoe.
	I said, That's a that's a rich man for a Holes in his socks and his shoes.
	Well, I I didn't well, I have holes in my socks because of Marley.
	Marley, I take my socks off and she runs all over the house.
	I have a hole in every sock I own.
	She takes every one of them.
	Guess what?
	Well, let me ask you a question.
	Why would I but you know, this is just part of my personality.
	I don't feel like going out.
	Number one, I hate shopping.
	Number two, this pair is very comfortable.
	Number three, I didn't even know I had a hole in the shoe.
	So if it's not bad enough that I feel it, what's the point?
	Why should I why should I get a new pair of shoes?
	I agree with you, Sean.
	I agree.
	Everybody had their comfortable panties and different things that they're doing.
	No, I don't know.
	Oh, geez, really.
	They have it all.
	I don't have a comfortable pair of whatever there was that you mentioned.
	I have no comfortable pair of that.
	I can tell you all, they're all the same to me.
	And I use Tommy John.
	They all look the same.
	They feel the same, and I put the a new pair on every day, obviously, but they're all the same color and they all look the same.
	I think that's I think that's too much information.
	But it's all about what flows.
	What makes you happy, honey?
	Well, it makes that all right.
	So here's the thing I want to ask you.
	Have you two ever done anything professionally speaking?
	And would you ever consider doing anything like going on the road and doing you know, doing d doing like a team thing together?
	Because you guys, I I bet the crowds would be massive, and I bet people would love to come out and see you in person and you could put a routine together and and be out there.
	I'd love to do it with you.
	Absolutely.
	We would love to go on a roll, Sean.
	You just gave us the details, and we'll be there.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	And where did you all start out with this?
	How did this start happening?
	Well, you know, back in 2015, the president came out and announced he was running for president.
	I was watching it.
	This is Diamond, and our call took us a girl couldn't on your TV.
	Donald Trump is announcing he's running for president.
	That's not what I was doing.
	I turned on my TV.
	She called me back halfway through.
	She said, Girl, she said, This is gonna be the next president of the United States.
	That's right.
	And we started defending him because the media started throwing him under the bus, calling him out of his name, and we didn't like the bigger.
	Do you take a lot of heat?
	Many of my friends that are black conservatives, African Americans, they take heat because they're conservatives.
	Do you take a lot of heat?
	Oh, we take a lot of heat.
	But uh again, by the way, how insulting is that?
	Isn't that insulting?
	We will educate.
	We will let them know you can no longer vote for a system that keeps handing you crumbs.
	It was okay for us to vote for the business man, the person that had the master plan that can truly make this place great again.
	And that's what we did.
	Amazing story.
	Thank you.
	800 Diamond and Soak, we love having you on the program.
	800 941 Sean is the toll free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	They're amazing people.
	They're so good.
	Um and you love them the most.
	You just like them because they agree with you and not with me.
	You agree with me on most everything anyway.
	Not on the holes in your shoes, I don't.
	What do you want me to do with the holes in my shoe?
	Not have them there.
	Do you d sure?
	Um now look, I'm nobody.
	All right, stop.
	Take that up.
	Here's what I want Nobody's believing that I have a hole in my shoe.
	It's a pretty big hole.
	Well, I'll I I'll let you send it out on my Twitter account.
	I'll take a picture.
	And take a it's but I don't feel the hole.
	You will one day.
	So your attitude is because I can afford new shoes, I should have new shoes.
	When you put new shoes on, they hurt.
	No, my attitude is when there's a hole in the bottom of your shoe that could be penetrated by something on a disgusting New York City street that you should get a new shoe.
	But it's not totally penetratable.
	It hasn't got through the street.
	You know what I'd like to do?
	Do they still have shoemakers out there?
	People that repair shoes.
	They do.
	Maybe I should get like a new soul.
	Right here.
	There's a lovely gentleman down the street.
	Do you ever go to him?
	Of course.
	Here's the thing.
	I don't give a rip.
	I don't care.
	They're comfortable.
	And I don't, you know what I don't want to pay attention to in life?
	I don't want to wake up on any given day and say, Oh, what should I wear today?
	Oh, what shoes should I put on today?
	I have to show you.
	Oh, yeah, because that's that's the kind of guy you are, Sean.
	I mean, you're your your fashion statement should scream.
	I spent a lot of time on this.
	Okay.
	Exactly.
	I wear I wear I have ten pairs of jeans.
	I have a couple of pairs of shoes.
	I do have one nice pair of shoes for like special occasions.
	And that and then I have those occasions where you won't wear those.
	I have Sneakers.
	Yeah, the occasions where I have to like dress up in a suit and go to the White House.
	I don't wear these.
	I don't wear the whole shoes to the White House.
	When I've interviewed the pressure.
	I'm very happy to hear that.
	Oh.
	Anyway, 800-941.
	Do you all?
	You're read.
	Do you all agree with her or me on this?
	No, you're cheap.
	I mean, if you No, I'm not cheap.
	Am I cheap?
	Hey man, you No, you're not cheap.
	You can't be wearing uh shoes with holes in them.
	Not you.
	I if any of you needed the shoes, I'd buy them in ten seconds.
	I need lots of shoes.
	Let's talk about that in the break.
	All right, eight hundred nine four one shot.
	All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
	Hannity tonight, 10 Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
	The left politicizing a tragedy.
	Really?
	Focused on shoes, and people are dying and losing everything they have.
	Well a full complete coverage of all of that.
	Kellyanne Conway, Senator Ted Cruz will update us on the rescue relief for Texas.
	Also, tonight, a Hannity investigation.
	What does Julian Assange have?
	We'll ask Dana Roerbacher who met with him, and we'll check in tonight with Luke Rosiak, the Daily Caller.

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